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Ugrisch und Penuti
Author(s) -
Michael Knüppel
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
finnisch-ugrische forschungen
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 0355-1253
DOI - 10.33339/fuf.85677
Subject(s) - linguistics , sociology , history , philosophy
The article deals with attempts to “connect” the Ob-Ugrian languages with the Penuti group of languages spoken in North America (California, Oregon etc.) in terms of a genetic relationship. Such attempts were undertaken by Otto J. v. Sadovszky (1925–2004), who considered the speakers of Penuti languages to be migrants from the Ob-Ugrian area in North Siberia; he tried to establish a new language family, which he and his followers called “Cal-Ugrian”. In the article, I first outline previous attempts to connect American Indian languages with Siberian languages, language families and groups of languages. I then present theories attempting to establish a relationship between the Uralic and the North American languages, as well as v. Sadovszky’s “Cal-Ugrian” theory; and demonstrate the weakness of the methods used by v. Sadovszky and his students.

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